a moment of silence for http://sparkles.lol which i finally shut down because nobody was really using it (not even my own work slack) 🙏
the way this dude leans hard into being cruel and heartless. man. https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1592574667470307328
twitter was already having some intermittent loading problems but it’s a LOT less intermittent today lol
holy shit, today might be the day twitter goes down https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592177471654604800
wooow, a week ahead of the world cup? apparently one of the two biggest events on twitter in terms of traffic? this might be what takes twitter down with no good way to bring it back up https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1591848844899540992
it’s difficult to imagine why advertisers don’t trust @elonmusk https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1591818624217804800
wow i can’t believe i forgot about “who up playing with they worm” https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/1591235348797231104
i know people are losing their minds over the whole “ghost employees” thing but i love that this Robert Kaiden guy was ordered to find said ghosts and was fired for not being a good enough medium/psychic, i guess?
i’d pay decent money for someone to port this theme to Rails + Stimulus. i wish i was good at frontend or design 😭 https://tailwindui.com/templates/spotlight
my bet is that if twitter even MAKES it to December 12, elon lets the cert lapse as an excuse to throw in the towel https://twitter.com/andrewzigler/status/1591105575542468608
this thread aged like fine milk 😗👌 https://twitter.com/Jessicalessin/status/1587165720684601345
ok so the Official badge silently returned late last night but then got removed from almost every profile? and the only accounts who still have it are the large advertisers that haven’t pulled their ads? lmao
the urge to write my own blog software (because of my pickiness in how it cross-posts to twitter and other stuff) is rapidly waning https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1590812793787518977
holy SHIT what a mess. i have consistently underestimated how quickly this would go downhill 🥴 https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1590724257608134657